Old B/W nostalgic pic…Playing in Dad’s yard…wonder if they ever got into road transport…
Some great pictures Fergie .
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Fergie47:
Patrick…some heavies, how it use to be done…
Can someone (Michel perchance 
) identify the tractor unit on pic three and four? Looks like some rebuild WW2 vehicle?
A Diamond T with the open cab. Here an other one from the same company Straumann from Colmar with a “steel” cab and new colour.
michel:
A Diamond T with the open cab. Here an other one from the same company Straumann from Colmar with a “steel” cab and new colour.
Nice found Michel, cheers!
About Straumann, is there a link between them and Brame P? Apart from the fact they both operate from Colmar that is…
Seen Straumann collecting some locomotives some years ago at the Alstom works in Belfort, quite an impressive sight to behold, seeing that bonneted Scanny pulling that up hill, like 
Now, about Alstom, they were quite a “big” item in the news, couldn’t fully understand what the fuzz was about though, volume of the telly was off, and it was quite busy in the routiers where I was having supper…
Some from the “heavy” division at Fiat’s then…
Second pic shows that the third axle is indeed a steerable one, quite clever lads those engineers back in 1949…
Some pages back the low positioned cabs were discussed, found some more and it seems that the idea has been used before…
Interesting! I had never seen a crane fitted on a standard 8-wheel chassis before.
Called the lodecca cab I think.I fitted a new clutch in one just like that when on the spanners for Richard Read.
Another unusual crane this belonged to Grayston White Sparrows group and was setting up for a heavy lift at Redpath Offshore fabrication yard at Port Clarence, Teesside date around 1992 IIRC.
jshepguis:
Another unusual crane this belonged to Grayston White Sparrows group and was setting up for a heavy lift at Redpath Offshore fabrication yard at Port Clarence, Teesside date around 1992 IIRC.
Quite a unusual crane but therefore most interesting indeed!
Cheers for posting
I’ve attended the annual Mack and heavy haulage rally today.
Here’s some footage I’ve taken.
Cheers, Patrick
Part 2
Last ones…
pv83:
Last ones…
Great pics Patrick…
Great pictures Patrick. Thank you.
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PV 83, Straumann was a very old company family owned still mid-90 when Transak bought it. A few years later a Brame’s brother bought it with his son ,and the name is still in activity :http://www.transport-straumann.fr/.
So ,in Colmar ,you could find 2 transport companies owned by Brame family but competitors.
Cheers for the info Michel, much appreciated!
A Straumann Berliet TBO with the Swiss company Welti Furer and their Steyr and Saurer tractors.
